I didn't even bother to pirate Starfield.

@kyotheman69

3 ай бұрын

its not worth download, game is boring

@bigglyfabulous

3 ай бұрын

Truth

@somakun1806

3 ай бұрын

same here

@w4rscr34m4

3 ай бұрын

I pirated it and it still wasn't even worth it. I'm not even trying to hate but it just wasn't fun at all

@phero2

3 ай бұрын

Same, never played it, probably never will. Looks like boring shit.

Todd is always in PR mode, I find it really annoying

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

He's now a CEO... he's not a developer anymore. even between themselves Todd is too important to have meetings with lowly employees anymore. he went full corporate.

@BigBADSTUFF69

3 ай бұрын

they are owned by a publicly traded company, it would actually be illegal for him to do things that would tank the stock and shareholders could sue him. It's a shitty system and why Larian can maintain it's dignity.

@KR-tk8fe

3 ай бұрын

@@Vert_GreenHeart He may be CEO, but he still has the final say on a lot of the decisions on the games. Which is where most of the ex-Bethesda team members says make projects take absurdly long and was very frustrating to deal with. He handles both Team lead and CEO, which I think makes the company suffer.

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

@@KR-tk8fe Yeah i heard something similar too, this is why he is grooming Emil to be the next Game Director of BGS. Which is a massive huge mistake.

@Mirthful_Midori

3 ай бұрын

@@Vert_GreenHeart Emil is BFFs with Todd, it's how he got the job to start with. It's obviously a terrible idea, but it's the most predictable outcome.

Starfield exploration is like going on vacation to another country just to visit their McDonalds to get a Big Mac and come home. Each location is the same thing over and over!

@schalitz1

3 ай бұрын

This has to be the best explanation I've ever seen.

@matohibiki

3 ай бұрын

And then when you get home, the napkins are soaked in grease, they forgot the ketchup, and you never got your drink.

@JamesLtc-uz9vt

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like torture. Amagine having a handicap and not really knowing how much time your wasting playing this. Id rather play tetris…. Pong i mean. Terrible that was the first game ever made too… fuck

@Legacyartist

3 ай бұрын

That is the best way to put it

"Clearly the players did not understand that Astronauts did not see much on the moon. So we decided to give them nothing to do on our planets too."

@ndcp2379

3 ай бұрын

I think that is there problem in a nutshell. They focused too much on realism, and did not stop to think is this fun.

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

Amazing. But I play games because my downtime is not as exciting as Todd's I seem to have misplaced my yacht, have you seen it around guy.

@Kakarot64.

3 ай бұрын

​@@masterpainter78 Follow the Skyrim re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release posters

@candyDander

3 ай бұрын

​@@ndcp2379Exactly. They still could have given that sort of remote, desolate, isolated feel and kept it interesting. But the story isn't interesting. They could have still made exploration fun. Let us find neat stuff. It's like the most important parts of the game seemed uninspired, even lazy.

@HairryTurttleneck

3 ай бұрын

This. This is why Xbox has started closing their studios. They’re living in a fairy tale

todd is hitting the nirnroot blunt too hard

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

I'd like to hit that too... I bet it would feel otherworldly.

@editorrbr2107

3 ай бұрын

Dude is nibbling at the jarrin root at this point.

@isaiahwilliams9413

3 ай бұрын

Mans been tweaking off the void salts

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

@@isaiahwilliams9413 He's been high off Moonsugar.

@erics8192

3 ай бұрын

dude's been hitting the skooma to hard

Gaslighting is the new truth

@Shiestey

3 ай бұрын

100% lmao. Forget admitting to your faults. Just tell everyone if they don’t like it, it’s their fault. We didn’t lie about anything, all of our reviews are 90s!

@yipperdeyip

3 ай бұрын

Eh, I've been entertained and lulled to sleep by hours upon hours of Starfield critique content lmao

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

It works most of the time and it's a favourite tool for developers to get their point across and sadly too many shilltubers to back them up on said gaslighting.

@TheInnocentRabbitofCaerbannog

3 ай бұрын

We have always been at war with Eurasia

@youngc570

3 ай бұрын

Agreed legacyShillerHd shills for abandonware maker Rockstar.

i love that game devs are almost always only interviewed by yes men instead of people that call them out on their bullshit

@dongarippo7279

3 ай бұрын

This is a growing issue. Not just with devs. Socially as well. People just want confirmation. Anything that is opposite from what they think. I go away. I am like that too, to some extent.

@SvendleBerries

3 ай бұрын

Propaganda doesnt work if the propagandists are openly challenged.

@npc-bl2vw

3 ай бұрын

They don't call him Greg Shiller for nothing...

@Pat315

3 ай бұрын

The interviewer had cancer. Unfortunately he beat it.

@rahmathadi855

3 ай бұрын

Either game devs only accept interview from people that support them or the interviewers are too afraid to ask critical question because they might be blacklisted for being too critical

Who cares about city maps, as a Morrowind boomer the problem is the lack of wonder, the characters in the world, the factions they are all so boring.

@sevenlexar

3 ай бұрын

What I've seen of it, this is exactly the issue. 'Planets are boring and empty in real life so we made them boring and empty in the game too; It's Realistic' is kinda majorly counter-intuitive in game design. You don't WANT boring, empty worlds. You want to give people something that makes them go 'oh wow, that's cool, what might I find on the NEXT planet'. No Mans Sky was only empty because they were a team of like, 12, on a time crunch they couldn't get around before they had no choice but to launch it as-is. Bethesda has hundreds of people and tons of money. They don't have an excuse for making a space-travel game with almost NO reason to interact with the Main Component of the game.

@abrahambobst4602

3 ай бұрын

Yes, the writing is terrible and even Will Shen essentially said so and I believe it's one of the reasons he left. More so the lack of in house communication while in development.

@MrXandervm

3 ай бұрын

right? its like people who keep harping on and on about the loading screens, as if thats the biggest issue. I mean, they are really bad, but boy does the universe suck ass. the 2 big factions are boring, you play in the time right after all the cool stuff happened ( fucking after the war with the mechs and bioengineered monstrocities, or the snake people crusade. right after theyve banned all the cool warcrime weapons ). the most interesting faction ( snake people ) arent even in the game, i mean they don't have a capital city that you can travel to. the 2 capitals of space empires are a mall / college campus with a big skyscraper in the middle, and a western town where like 150 people live. both are surrounded by randomly generated wilderness, with the same settlers and labs and whatever. I wanted to demostrate to my dad why the exploration sucked, so i looked around with my scanner for a nearby point of interest. found one 800 meter away. walked there. found a cave with 4 turrets in it, some cash and thats it. im not even joking. i've played this game for 60 hours. Everybody has a stupid job for you. the thing i enjoyed the most was that boring tour on titan, because at least the voice actor had character. i can go on and on. its like this game has been purposely designed to piss me off.

@abrahambobst4602

3 ай бұрын

@@MrXandervm Not just that, but your actions have no consequences. Even FO4 your actions still had some consequences depending on the missions you chose to complete. Plus, just stealing something of low value suddenly recruits you be an undercover agent in a criminal gang makes no sense.

@matohibiki

3 ай бұрын

@@abrahambobst4602 Are you trying to tell me that stealing a drink doesn't qualify me to be a hardcore double secret agent, infiltrating an interstellar criminal gang? ...Hell, now I've gotta go get all these tattoos removed. Should've just paid for the damn Coke Zero.

I can't tell if Todd Howard genuinely lacks self awareness or pretends he doesn't have any. Starfield being "too different" from previous Bethesda games isn't why the game's been so divisive with people....

@earlofdoncaster5018

3 ай бұрын

Howard said that '76 was a great game. This means he's either a pathological liar, an idiot or someone who's enthusiasm overrides their critical faculties.

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

They know... they know everything. They just choose to ignore because they're too incompetent to pull off anything.

@providencebreaker1558

3 ай бұрын

If anything Starfield is too similar to everything they have done in the past and amplifies all the worst aspects of the creation engine to levels where it simply cannot be ignored or modded over.

@maddymcmadingson6296

3 ай бұрын

Funny thing about that is is that starfield is literally almost the same exact experience as all of their other games only much much worse.

@peenurmobile

3 ай бұрын

companies are actually very self aware, they're just always wriggling like a worm towards the best way to make money, and it looks like a bunch of nonsense

This was the first E for everyone M for mature game I’ve ever played. Literally sanitized. No way this team gave us fallout 3 or Skyrim.

@nexus3756

3 ай бұрын

it really isnt the same team. they all left presumably out of embarrassment

@UwUOwl

3 ай бұрын

It should've had gore like fallout.

@ThanQAnonYT

3 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as "same teams" in the AAA industry. Companies became way to greedy when they became publicly traded. They started hiring contractors to save money which fucked over the talent which suddenly have to teach and take care of all those rotating contractors. The team became WAY bigger and as a result the talent couldn't really influence the game as much anymore as in the past. Back in the day every developer had huge influence on the game, passion and talent created all these games and today that is missing / was forced out. 10 years of DEI hiring on top of contractors to boost their ESG score which killed off the remaining talent in these companies. Now the games are just a means to make the money. Money is the main focus and the game is just the means to get sad money. No more passion, no more risks, just garbage.

@texasfuneral4787

3 ай бұрын

Skyrim? Yes. The lead writer is still the same guy from skyrim. His motto "keep it simple stupid"

@alanluscombe8a553

3 ай бұрын

Oh they have the same writer as Skyrim. I enjoy starfield but I get why people don’t. That writer literally said he keeps his writing simple stupid for people. He should be replaced

Imagine the director of General Motors announcing, “Hey, now our cars have steering wheels.” CITY MAPS??? That’s NOT a reason to play! That should have been there from the start!

@nidungr3496

3 ай бұрын

Didn't GM recently abandon Apple Carplay so they could charge money for their own navigation system?

Starfield is Rated M but where exactly is the gore? The mature themes? The swearing? The violence? It’s the most boring, sterile waste of space I’ve ever played. But…..that’s because it was on Game Pass.

@beethovenlivesupstairs4182

3 ай бұрын

startrek has neither of that stuff. It's the tone they wanted to tell.

@ambushbob5383

3 ай бұрын

​@@beethovenlivesupstairs4182what?

@samvimes9510

3 ай бұрын

It has booze and drugs in it, that's enough for the ESRB to give it an M rating.

@alexmin4752

2 ай бұрын

@@beethovenlivesupstairs4182 Star Trek is an utopian fantasy. Such visual narrative makes sense. But in Starfield everyone is miserable, all factions are assholes, all cities are shitholes and yet, there's no grit in that world. Narratively it's WH40k lite but visually it's Star Trek. This dissonance kills suspenison.

@vermonjavic6992

16 күн бұрын

Only the swearing checks the list, i mean there‘s some labs filled with dead bodies and blood but that pretty much it as far i played

I love it when he keeps running his mouth. Let him talk. Maybe it will open more people to the fact that he is literally nothing more than a snake oil salesman.

@damiansfiguredlife2626

3 ай бұрын

And have us turn into GHOULS

@Al-Storm

3 ай бұрын

Won't happen, the sheep will eat up every word.

@NxtDoc1851

3 ай бұрын

It's remarkable that he is still employed. Fans chased Molyneux out ofter his Fable claims (and rotorts) yet this goof still runs around egregiously lying

@Konfide4043

3 ай бұрын

But he made Elder Scrolls. That's like a salesman inventing a cure to cancer but selling fakes

@BlazerManiacNumber96

3 ай бұрын

He’s delivered some of the biggest games ever made lol

todd talking garbage again, like he has done for more than a decade non-stop now.

@MrTrancelator

3 ай бұрын

16 times the garbage

@yipperdeyip

3 ай бұрын

This incompetent fool is gonna deliver so many people's most anticipated game...? Christ Bathesda is so utterly irrelevant and has been for over a decade now. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 IS WHERE IT'S AT

@EnsignRedshirtRicky

3 ай бұрын

Coming up on two decades. He used to lie when he was only a coder about how the engine was going to do things it cannot possibly do. At this point it is probably compulsive, not a conscious decision.

@The_Endless_Now

3 ай бұрын

"every button, every blinky light"

@Captain.AmericaV1

3 ай бұрын

Someone must be spiking his coffee with some hard class A drugs

Todd and Phil Spencer should get together and open up a new studio called used car salesmen.

@exodore2000

3 ай бұрын

Peter Molyneux as well.

@unkosherfood

3 ай бұрын

they do like old engines lol

@ryanangle5194

3 ай бұрын

Used car salesman don't force you to listen to long winded stories about how you remind them of there former gay lovers. Or force you into a pronoun before you test drive.

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

Under rated comment.

@killswitchfate

3 ай бұрын

brilliant take

Tell me lies, Tell me sweet little lies, Tell me, Tell me, Todd lies

@TheScrootch

3 ай бұрын

Oh, no, no you can't gaslight!

The only thingsm different about starfield and other Bethesda games, is how boring the open world is... Its literally a combination of all their previous games but just a lot worse. Hes so out of touch its laughable

@urazz7739

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, exploration in Starfield is worse than in past Bethesda games.

@blakecasimir

3 ай бұрын

Where are the alternatives? First person RPGs that are moddable that fans are adding tons of content to?

@inquigor

3 ай бұрын

@@blakecasimir oh sweet summer child, implying you deserve to have a community working off hours to fix the game you bought. you dont. also there not being an alternative (in your tiny brain) doesn't mean you should play starfield. grow a backbone and play some fun games instead of being held hostage by your own mind. it would be amazing if modders actually make a bunch of amazing content for starfield, cause the base game is goddam embarassing. but first theyd have to want to, and who wants to make content for a game you dont want to play? iirc it was 4 months for the cc to come out before, which is close enough to launch that people are still playing it. go look at the steam charts this shit has crashed and burned already. the game is so bad its a meme at this point, BGS is just lucky they didnt get something like 'd4 bad' attached to the game.

Turns out Emils “keep it simple stupid” philosophy for writing doesn’t lend itself to a game world with engrossing lore. Who’d have thought? The only reason Skyrim, and ES as a whole, has as much staying power as it does is cause people like Michael Kirkbride did the leg work to make the lore and game world interesting from the start

@gwkiv1458

3 ай бұрын

Fallout 4 writing was a complete joke. I felt dirty playing it. If i hear "synth" one more time lmfao

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

​@gwkiv1458 Ironically that was the game where Emil had one of biggest roles in development. Starfield is his game through and through.

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

Previous Bethesda games were successful despite the writing not because of it. Emil thought people actually loved his kindergarten level of writing and thinks hes some master writing messiah. i mean i know most devs have god complex towards us players but Emil has delusioned himself into believing it.

@urekmazino6800

3 ай бұрын

​@@Vert_GreenHeartneeds to be fired

@abrahambobst4602

3 ай бұрын

@@urekmazino6800 I have wrote the same.

"Look at Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky!" This is _Bethesda._ They ain't fixing crap.

@Dystopian_Phantom_595

3 ай бұрын

Some people just want to OD on compium.

@brucehertz2820

3 ай бұрын

Sadly what they do 'fix' ends up breaking more!

How did no one in the first year of development sit down and say "okay, this game is boring. We dont need to make 1000 planets, lets make 50. Have 10 of them hand crafted with cities and set locations, and then have a few dozen planets that are mostly radiant content". There is an aversion to fun over at Bethesda

@doctorlolchicken7478

3 ай бұрын

They probably did, but Todd has been wanting to make this game for 25 years and he was in charge.

@pattyladd

3 ай бұрын

Arrogance

@Just-Ignore-It_88

3 ай бұрын

3 star systems would of been enough if it has free flight like star citizen.

@keithcass257

2 ай бұрын

They did, Todd didn’t listen

Anakin to Todd: Liar!!!

@connieellerbe-maycock7115

3 ай бұрын

Nice one.

@Crazozourus

3 ай бұрын

@@connieellerbe-maycock7115 Im still in awe at how amazing acting and writing was in that scene.😄

@user-sx3pc4dj3r

3 ай бұрын

Todd: my allegiance is to sweet baby Inc, to woke tyranny.

@Crazozourus

3 ай бұрын

@@user-sx3pc4dj3r While showing his "genuine" six dollar bill.

@TheScrootch

3 ай бұрын

"Who's laughing now."

Todd Howard always reminds me of one of those quack doctors from the Wild West. They’re great when it comes to selling you something, but what you inevitably end up with is anything but great.

@TwinFather0420

3 ай бұрын

They are called snake oil salesmen and he’s basically a modern version.

@sweptinblack

3 ай бұрын

It’s good for gout and nagging wife

@maximnewman2483

3 ай бұрын

@@TwinFather0420 that’s the term I was looking for! Thank you haha. Basically the guy from Red Dead Redemption.

@Maxsmack

3 ай бұрын

Then the community, the town he’s selling to, ends up fixing it for him.

@lenol0315

3 ай бұрын

Hes a✡️

Todd: “we always start with the tone” The tone: 😴😴💤

I love that he has the nerve to say we need to upgrade our pc to handle this"next gen" experience, but i played it on HIGH SETTINGS and when looking at the cowboy Sam Coe, directly infront of him, he has a beard, but take a few steps back and you can literally see it disappear..."next gen" everybody...

@brucehertz2820

3 ай бұрын

Sad when Todd and Spencer were asked about performance on PC and Todd said the game would run fine with the right PC specs. while he and Spencer grinned and chuckled, both losers.

I can tell you with two words why I don't like it. Loading Screens.

@osc-oldschoolclips5204

3 ай бұрын

Whenever those mods come out officially I will need to upload a video on why neon is the worst place to go. You wanna freelance in neon? Get ready to be introduced to a million and one loading screens! There’s a loading screen to enter tiny ass stores bruh. It’s ridiculous the amount of loading screens it has. And it’s something that didn’t bother me until I found out there’s nothing to this fucking game. Its uninteresting.

@marcpaulus6291

3 ай бұрын

here are another 2: Gamebreaking Bugs.

@earlofdoncaster5018

3 ай бұрын

16x the loading screens.

@SPG25

3 ай бұрын

Here's more, Sh1t Story, Boring Gameplay, Empty Worlds, The Message,

@BigBADSTUFF69

3 ай бұрын

it wasn't the loading screens it was the lack of game between loading screens.

snake oil todd

@Gorbz

3 ай бұрын

I remember Todd saying they did not have vehicles because the planets were supposed to have specific travel times between sites. Now they are putting in vehicles. Just one more little lie...?

I don't think Todd really understands what made Skyrim and Fallout masterpieces. ☹

@Just-Ignore-It_88

3 ай бұрын

Lore, factions and power armor.

Bro i put 4 hours into starfield and almost fell asleep everytime I have 50+ hours in helldivers and i feel like i dont even play it that much

@schalitz1

3 ай бұрын

Can only stand Starfield when I'm high. Way to boring to play sober.

@Varangian_af_Scaniae

3 ай бұрын

4 hours is 1 hour more than me. I stopped playing after getting the exact same dialog from first a male chief then 3 minutes late a female chief on procedural bases outside Atlantis.

one of the first things i did when i got it was to unpack the game and check how many meshes it had for nature in comparison to Skyrim. it has way less. skyrim is 1 region on 1 planet, yet it has more meshes. i was very disappointed because it directly told me how little effort was put into the game in terms of biome/planet variety. they had 400 more people working on it too than skyrim, makes you wonder what the hell those people did.

@Grimshade27

3 ай бұрын

Majority of those new employees are not actual developers but DEI enforcers.

@midnightshade32

3 ай бұрын

​@@Grimshade27they were models for the npcs roaming around

@pattyladd

3 ай бұрын

"they had 400 more people working on it too than skyrim, makes you wonder what the hell those people did" for eight years smh

@matthewlucent7645

3 ай бұрын

Those people sat at their workstations playing Solitaire for 12 hours a day.

@brucehertz2820

3 ай бұрын

Copy paste.

So, who's still feeling hopeful for ES6? It'll be exactly like this.

@JayMaverick

3 ай бұрын

Nobody. And it'll sell like hotcakes.

@providencebreaker1558

3 ай бұрын

Starfield is basically the spiritual successor to Daggerfall with 99% of the game being procedural generated nonsense. It just lacks the soul of the old school writing team. They better hire some damn good writers for Hammerfall or it's going to be disastrous.

@HybOj

3 ай бұрын

Dont put shitfield and DAGGERFALL in a same sentence ever again.

@kristenhahn5901

3 ай бұрын

At this point I’ve moved past sadness into morbid curiosity at how bad it will be 😅

@randomonlineuser6401

Ай бұрын

@@providencebreaker1558 I doubt that because the lead writer is Emil. I'm sure if they hire good writers some side quests will be memorable but for the main quests and guild questlines it'll be mediocore due to Emil utter lack of competence and lack to change and criticism.

No man's sky is such a better experience than anything starfield has to show

@belgianbull4722

3 ай бұрын

for me still the best space game is the Mass effect trilogy

@lazrustosadow5880

3 ай бұрын

@@belgianbull4722 Mass effect for all your space social experience, NMS for your space exploration experience

Him saying it was just "too different" was so wild to me. It did not instill any hope in the admittedly very shallow pool of hope I have for ES6.

what would win: >long winded explanation full of speculation and ignorance >"it just works"

8 months of waiting for maps and some QOL settings and people are praising them for it. It genuinely blows my mind how much people let BGS get away with

@flyingplantwhale545

3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that's a tiny minority. Nobody is forcing people to play this piece of shit. And they're not. The steam charts speak for themselves. BGS can cope and gaslight as much as they want. It's not gonna bring people back.

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

It is a minority of people now and when the next game releases it should show when the sales figures come in.

@JasonVoorhees-wn1zq

3 ай бұрын

@@masterpainter78Todd Howard could take a $hit on stage and the next elder scrolls would still get game of the year when it drops

The issues with and this multi billion dollar Bethesda does not stem from brokenness or bugs. Those are problematic symptoms, but not the fundamental core issue. The fundamental core issue problem is stagnation. It is a antiquated, outdated design, philosophy, and mechanic implementation that is decades old at this point. It literally , for those of us who played these games, brings instant familiarity to the days of Morrowind and oblivion. Not the nostalgic familiarity, but instead a incredibly outdated familiarity. A stagnant familiarity of some thing you’ve already played long ago. This obviously hits harder for those of us who played those original Bethesda games way back in the day because we see what they have been doing for the past decade especially with no improvement. It’s added bells and whistles to the same damn car. With this multi billion dollar company with access to limitless, finances, and resources… we are seeing astronomical amounts of wasted potential. Potential competitors are achieving over the past decade, and some of which have lesser means. There’s no excuse for this with Bethesda . We’re not seen unapologetic passionate authentic creativity with the desire to Achieve a experience that hasn’t been done or seen before. Instead, we’re getting recycled regurgitation of the same design, philosophy and mechanics repurposed over and over and over. Safe lazy stagnation. And I won’t ignore the fact that the majority player Base of Bethesda, including myself for a time ,have been responsible for this in part. It’s what we have been incentivizing and rewarding with our wallet and eyeball access. Instead of Meeting these subpar results with the appropriate accountability and consequence of such wasted potential… We found ourselves excusing it, and just normalizing it as the typical Bethesda experience to satiate instant gratification and boredom . And that was lazy on the consumers part. To give the multibillion-dollar company that kind of response because it just perpetuates more of it. And now here we are. Todd and multi billion dollar Bethesda is a safe regurgitated, stagnant outdated experience and they have to get back to a authentic genuine state of escapism and passionate creativity that they honestly have not had for a long time. They’ve got the wrong priorities and we’ve got to stop rewarding that. Lastly : Larian , a studio from top to bottom full of passionate authentic unapologetic, creative artist solely focused on genuine immersive escapism and player agency in the world/experience they’re bringing to life. That is what I want from a game, from any game or any entertainment for that matter because it speaks to the core root of what entertainment is to begin with… ESCAPE! It doesn’t focus on anything else, it just provides escape. And as a non-dnd player… This is why I fell in love with bg3 and respect the hell out of Larian as long as they maintain this priority. It’s the right priorities and I sure as hell want to reward and incentivize more of that! N That ain’t Bethesda

Bethesda depends on modders to make their games playable. So when the modders abandon the project, it's dead.

wow, Todd smoking some weird stuff

@JamesScholes

3 ай бұрын

He'll be hitting Skooma hard knowing Todd.

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

He's been smoking nirnroot blunts, drunk on Skooma and high on Moonsugar.

You really cannot compare starfield and cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was super immersive and unique in many ways. Starfield is just stale and the old Bethesda formula just doesn’t work with something this huge and grand scale in general

@rickinielsen1

3 ай бұрын

Cyberpunk was janky and buggy at launch, but the core story, characters, city etc. were amazing. Which was why it turned out so great with extra polish(hehe). Starfield is rotten at the core. You can maybe polish a turd, but it is still a turd. Bethesda is not going to rewrite the story, missions, characters etc. I don't even think they have the awareness to realise that is the main problem with this and every other recent game they released.

@dissident1337

3 ай бұрын

Starfield didn't follow the Bethesda formula enough, like NPCs being simplified to Morrowind levels.

@nastytechniquez9685

3 ай бұрын

@@rickinielsen1 couldn’t agree more. The city felt more alive than almost any other game world I can think of

@nastytechniquez9685

3 ай бұрын

@@dissident1337 it did it many ways. It couldn’t be the same as it used to be with Starfield given the scale but it definitely uses lots of Bethesda elements, just dumbed down because they couldn’t give the game is just so huge so there had to be cuts somewhere

@FollowTheFreeman

3 ай бұрын

Cyberpunk is indeed on the same revolting level as 76 and Starfield. Both in terms of quality and effort. GTA 4 accomplished everything cyberpunk did and even did things better, and that was almost 20 years ago... Plus If I recall, GTA 4 wasn't taken off the marketplaces for being an incomplete mess at launch lol Fuck Todd "The Greaseball" Howard.

"We want to say yes to the player as much as possible" Very few games say no to the player as much as starfield.

@flyingplantwhale545

3 ай бұрын

So true. Want to go off exploring? You'll find nothing Want to be an evil character? You'll get nothing

@amannamedsquid313

3 ай бұрын

@@flyingplantwhale545 Want a cool ending? Too bad. Want an interesting, menacing, sympathetic and/or sinister antagonist? Nothing. Want some decent enemy variety and no crappy level scaling? No dice.

@user-sx3pc4dj3r

3 ай бұрын

Want a level cap? No just have a character that becomes worse than the one you start with after level 50.

The vehicle in starfield will turn out to be a giant hat on the head of an npc that is located just under the ground 😂😂😂

Starfield is fooking boooring, thats why

They really will make every excuse possible, anything other than changing that god aweful engine. If he thinks this is acceptable gameplay I fear for whatever Elder Scrolls 6 brings to the table.

@Vert_GreenHeart

3 ай бұрын

TES6 is just doomed from the start... all the old devs that made old TES long left BGS.

@waterloo32594

3 ай бұрын

If you plan on getting ES6 after what Bethesda has produced for the past decade, you need to get help.

@georgek2574

3 ай бұрын

Don’t blame the engine for devs with zero passion. They COULD have overhauled the engine to do what would have been needed but they are lazy and won’t take the risks

@GunnerOnTheRidge

3 ай бұрын

@@georgek2574 Do you think that development has any say in what they’re designing, much less what engine they’re using to create it? No, it comes from the top ultimately, and it’s cheaper to keep using it. The engine is very old and severely limited when compared to Engines like Unreal 5.

@georgek2574

3 ай бұрын

@@GunnerOnTheRidge an engine like UE5 is built upon UE4. It’s not like it’s made from the ground up each 1.0 release. Making engines takes an extreme amount of money and man hours, star citizen is a prime example of how much money and time it takes to do that. Bethesda just isn’t willing to do that with creation engine so I don’t disagree switching to something like UE5 wouldn’t benefit them, but Bethesda is ULTIMATELY to blame for CE2’s short comings and not willing to spend the money to bring it up to snuff with modern gaming engines.

I played it for like 10 hours and everyone I talked to that was in a relationship was gay. 🤦‍♂️

@silvafox07

3 ай бұрын

That's hot

@pattyladd

3 ай бұрын

Trying to force people to accept something they strongly disagree with never works.

@user-sx3pc4dj3r

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I noticed that, the gay characters insist on making it their personality. It was so forced it was off putting

All they had to do was fix the story, fix the gameplay loop, fix the bugs, fix the world interactivity, fix the space travel, fix the companions, fix the loot system, fix the skills, fix the powers, fix the inventory, fix the ending, and boom, you have a decent game

@Jim71

3 ай бұрын

🎯

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

Fix that sheet UI, seriously can't even figure out which gun is best because damage per second is not listed.

@brucehertz2820

3 ай бұрын

Lol... it's why Howard loves the creation engine, to get modders to fix everything, except now the modders are wise to the tactics.

The biggest insult I can give starfield is that it's boring to the point i cannot even be bothered to say something bad

@steffithemad8327

3 ай бұрын

I didn't bother to finish it, just didn't give a damn, as a completionist gamer, this really pissed me off. Just too bored.

Bethesda is such an overrated company it's hillarious

@pattyladd

3 ай бұрын

When did accepting an extremely bugged release become the new normal, I didn't get that memo.

@user-ip6wq7vr7m

3 ай бұрын

@@pattyladd because we allowed it and let them get away with it, we just kept buying there bugged games instead of standing up to them .

Starfield has not enough content compared to Skyrim or Fallout 4. Even the modders gave up for the most part, because instead of reciving a finished product as base from Bethesda, they got a blank canvas with a note from Todd to make the rest for FREE.

Todd: "Its too different" I hate that he acts as if Starfield wasn't advertised as "Skyrim in Space!"

@user-sx3pc4dj3r

3 ай бұрын

-from the creators of- Skyrim -made a new IP set- in space.

You left out how Skyrim was literally bricking PS3s when it came out because of an integer overflow error 😆

I feel that Starfield was very revealing for Todd Howard as his entire career consisted of him receiving IPs developed and brought to success by their creators, many of which are never acknowledged for their work creating the franchises, and he never realized that he was just expanding on that success. This was the first project he built from the ground up, and he's seeing that it's a lot different building upon something that was already successful and trying to make his own product successful. The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, and Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics were all successful games that had hardcore fans before he even touched them, so he inherited a per-established fanbase that naturally made the follow-ups successful. I bought Morrowind and Fallout 3 simply because I loved the earlier games, and I didn't even consider changes in gameplay or any changes to the formula because I just had to try the latest release in those franchises. He can't seem to accept that this game has failed overall; just become something earns tons of money doesn't make it successful. Instead of just saying, "People didn't like my take on this space-exploration experience", he just continues to fabricate this concept that it was some kind of equally balanced split. I loved Mass Effect and it didn't let me fully explore every planet. There were even planets you could only look at from your universe map that were only ever described and people absolutely loved it the game. Starfield just didn't hit the mark as many games often do, and it's ok.

I'm beginning to think that the Snake Oil Salesman in the Fallout TV series (y'know, the one who fucks chickens) was based on Todd.

@casualsurfing4428

21 сағат бұрын

You sir, are a scholar! New headcannon!

It looks like Bethesda is trying to add in features to improve Starfield, but I'm not sure it'll be enough to bring a massive amount of players back to the game. It's a red flag when well known modding teams abandoned plans to make mods for this game because of how it was designed.

@schalitz1

3 ай бұрын

Unlike No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk, Starfield has never had a good core to expand from.

Microsoft won't allow Todd to make that financial blunder again. Bethesda is now just about keeping Elders Scrolls away from Sony

@johnaspaul

3 ай бұрын

Tbh, if I was Big M, I d do exactly what you stated here. Need to cut losses.

@midnightshade32

3 ай бұрын

Actually all ms games are going to Sony. They fucked up with gamepass as people were t buying enough games. Future Xbox hardware is to be unique niche like steam deck.. Well these are thr rumors anyway

@jacobyrassilon

3 ай бұрын

@@midnightshade32 Sad thing is I cancelled Gamepass because not really all that much that I want to play, and MS executives said that white, male gamers were a problem, so I took my problematic male gaze and money and went elsewhere.

Player count is not reflective of it being a new IP. It started with very high numbers and, if people enjoyed it, they would still be there. It has dropped because people are not enjoying it, rather than because it is not a different IP.

I liked Starfield for a a single playthrough but that was about it. I explored a lot in the early game but after I had halfway decent equipment and a formidable custom ship, that was it. I didn’t need to go out and do anything other than the quests. Once those were done and I was given the option to new game + I was just kinda like “huh. Neat. Anyways…” and moved on to something else.

Todd Howard: *announces vehicles Dev team: *puts a car in the head of an NPC

Not lies, just 16 times the details. xD

@nobletenshi7659

3 ай бұрын

16 times the loading screens

@HybOj

3 ай бұрын

16 times the BS

The sad fact is that we're never gonna get another fallout New Vegas. Todd Howard has sold us nothing but hot air for the past decade and it's embarrassing how long we got fooled.

@thomasrial4444

3 ай бұрын

[Starfeild opinion at bottom under my bias] Morrowind when it came out was amazing and I still find it fun today and it’s the first game I played on the new Xbox. FNV (when not on ps3) is amazing and my personal all time favorite game because of its writing and awesome environmental story telling and great locations. Skyrim is a fun fantasy world and has really well built replay-ability I dislike oblivion because of its UI and it has a terrible leveling/scaling system. It was a literal step back from Morrowind. FO3 I played after FNV so it never hit me the right way even though it’s fun Fallout 4 was for me just straight up disappointing after playing FNV for years and the map is smaller and 37 locations are areas your suppose to build up (settlements) Fallout 76 is online and I don’t play Bethesda games for online. Learned that from ESO. And after trying through gamepass I know it’s just not me. ------- Starfield is my favorite genre “sci fi” and i find fun to explore locations but my biggest problem is every companion in FNV just by themselves (pick any) are better than all of constellation’s companions combined. Rex and Lilly are the two weakest but in comparison to constellation… they feel like actual well written characters with their stories and are just simply more fun. I actively speced my character so I didn’t have to rely on their skills for my ship. I know starfeild will get better with time because of DLC and mods and I enjoy a lot of the space adventures that there are but those main story companions will never leave because they can’t without actually changing the game. I like Starfeild because I grew up on Morrowind. I can’t love Starfeild because the characters I’m supposed to care the most about are just empty surface level story shells walking around my ship. They no longer travel with me because Skyrim style no opinion characters that do exist in Starfeild are just more fun to have crewing. It hurts the flow of the main story and game way too hard for me. I honestly wish the story was us building up constellation from nothing rather than the garage group we are forced into dealing with just to beat the main story. Footnote edit: Constellation is Starfeild’s biggest problem and it physically can’t be changed

I like how in starfield animations are fluid and all vegetation is reacting to player in a realistic way. Very impressive technology for 2003

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

I dropped a dll file into my Skyrim Se game folder, and it does the same thing.

@brucehertz2820

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, might have been impressive TWENTY YEARS AGO! 😜

I mean at this point in Skyrim’s post-release Bethesda had already released Dawnguard, compared to the QoL updates to Starfield; the difference in quality is stunning.

I just hate that you can't loot the clothes and spacesuits from NPCs like in previous BGS games.

@MartinOReilly-mb4um

3 ай бұрын

Yea, that was a really odd omission since every other game let you do it.

Starfield has insufferable companions, ships with doors that put themselves wherever they damn well please, and vendors with enough cash to buy half of an expensive gun you want to sell. And those are just the three that instantly came to mind. Its a fantastic start to what will probably be a good game someday but currently has utterly baffling design choices. Stuff that I find it hard to believe wasn't brought up during development. "Hey boss you know in Skyrim how you can level up your mercantile skills and vendors will have more gold? Maybe we should keep that in this new space game?" "You're fired."

They chose the most boring scenario to make a game around, we missed the big space war, there's no bad guy, and no intelligent alien life. Yay just space pirates and a main story that's just collect powers until you new game+ and lose all your progress. I didn't expect to pay 100 bucks for an early access game.

Cyberpunk was plagued by bugs, glitches, and performance issues, but the game itself was great. No Man`s Sky was plagued by a lack of content. All fixable problems, barely any fundamental flaws, while Starfield has too many root problems, the number of loading screens, the fishbowl zones, the "space shout" powers, the campaign resetting your progress, melee weapons being all the same, the perk system locking basic gameplay mechanics... I don`t know, pretty sure Starfield will get the one DLC, and that will be it, modkit for modders, and a big middle finger from BGS.

@strykrpinoy

3 ай бұрын

Cyberpunk was a dumpster fire its first year and was missing a core feature until its DLC stop with the revisionist history please. perk system locking basic game play mechanics? LOL what?

@alanalb1449

3 ай бұрын

I played Cyberpunk since day one, i wasn't great ant the problems were more than bugs and glitches, it was your average edgy shooter

@shippy1001

3 ай бұрын

@@strykrpinoy Here`s an example of you being a potato, Cyberpunk didn`t missed anything from the get go, you could play the game all the way to completion, you would know that if you played. Yes Starfield locks gameplay mechanics behind perks, not sure if you are lacking IQ but you can`t use stealth, jetpack, fly bigger ships, without perks.

@shippy1001

3 ай бұрын

@@alanalb1449 It was bad at the beginning, but at no moment in time was considered average edgy shooter, from multiple review sources including steam reviews, you are just wrong.

@fallingintime

3 ай бұрын

My issue with cyberpunk is that the main story feels like a drag especially in the beginning. Also characters like panam and Judy were kinda awful (nice eye candy though). Still the gameplay and presentation was very good and had some notable side quests

It's disliked because Bethesda makes trash games, but has been successful into gaslighting gamers into thinking they are good for years. And gee...Greg Schiller loves Starfield. What a shocker.

@jboogie5216

3 ай бұрын

Fallout 3 and New Vegas were legendary!

@kingofmythss1500

3 ай бұрын

Obsadain made new vegas

@beebomcgroober9316

3 ай бұрын

I can't even stand looking at Greg Miller and his douchy haircut. How does he manage to extricate his head from the ass of one developer in time to stick it up the ass of the next one?

@chrisrahl8577

3 ай бұрын

And how long ago was fallout 3? Seems like Bethesda just stopped giving a shite years ago.

@choppedandbobbed9729

3 ай бұрын

Starfield is fun though. Amazing faction quest lines

The story itself is just boring. Boring characters. Boring world building. No risk whatsoever. It feels like starfield was written by the HR department.

@hagron5702

3 ай бұрын

You said it perfectly. It's quite boring indeed.

Starfield is worse due to the number or loading screens we have in the game and exploration being even worse than in past Bethesda games. It also doesn't help that the gameplay feels the same as older Bethesda games and so feels stale.

@flyingplantwhale545

3 ай бұрын

If it was the same olf Bethesda formula, It'd be a massive improvement. Starfield destroyed whatever qualities the prior games were praised for. The open world is completely devoid of meaningful landmarks, discoveries and quests. It's completely meaningless. The characters are emotionally sterile, the loot system is completely f*cked. They basically f*cked up Everything.

6:44 is it just me or does the guy interviewing Todd Howard seem unstable. He did that really aggressive salute before and now just awkward laugh. Maybe it's just a bad atmosphere and he's reacting oddly to it.

@hagron5702

3 ай бұрын

The guy's a weirdo. The fact that he's enjoying Starfield is proof enough.

Starfield does not give me high hopes for future BGS titles. When other games like CP2077, Elden Ring, and BG3 exist - games from much smaller companies - BGS needs to up their game in both story and fun mechanics.

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

It should be noted that those companies were facing do or die situations. The game would succeed or our whole company is over.

The main focus should be creating a huge amount of additional areas that you can find on planets. Right now there's less than 10 types of mercenary outposts. This number should be 5-10x that. Ideally they should be randomly generated to some extent, so that they don't feel exactly the same, down to enemy placement, lore placement, chests, etc.

I started with Daggerfall and after FO1. They've shafted their own IP!s and those of others. Never a penny of mine shall they see.

It's disliked because not only is it mechanically the antithesis of innovative but it lacks in all personality. It should have been a multi-alien raced game (The sci-fi elder scrolls), where you can actually travel in orbit and out of orbit (limited perhaps it doesnt have to be Star Citizen) and it should have been just like 5-10 planets with a lot of interesting points of interest and content with automated lesser points of interest inbetween it all if you feel like mining and exploring. What we have is sooooo boring.

But at the end of the day I don’t want to talk to any of the NPCs like I do in Skyrim….the NPCs in starfield are so lifeless and shit

Starfield has the most boring universe and lore ever. There is nothing interesting about it. Missions are cringy and extremely pooly written. Characters are flat, generic and uninteresting. Everything else about the game doesnt really matter much if there is nothing enjoyable for me to play or replay. When i finished Cyberpunk the first time i immediately started a new playthrough to get more of the world, story and characters. So far i have played it through 8 times. In Starfield i was bored the first time.

Bethesda doubling down on how good Starfield actually is, is really bad news for MS sales and for gamers. They need to accept and learn from the mistake. Cyberpunk making a comeback is one of the worst things to happen in gaming history. Now everyone just pints to that in defense of games being bad. “Just wait 3 more years and it might be alright like Cyberpunk 🤓.”

The game was made to be driven by modders. All the open spaces, lack of lore... to be filled in. Free work while Bethesda does the bare minimum for cash to roll in.

In the same interview Todd also mentions they're working on 2 new Fallout games and as an Elder Scrolls fan that just made me absolutely sick to my stomach. How many more decades and console generations and lifetimes are we going to have to wait for a sequel?

@themrlace

3 ай бұрын

Genuine question, no hate whatsoever. Why are you even waiting for a new Elder Scrolls to begin with? What are you hoping for exactly? What gets you hyped in the first place? Hasn't Bethesda clearly shown that they cannot imrpove in quality? Looking at how things are as of today, ES6 is just gonna be Skyrim, but now it's run on the Creation Engine 2. Wow, much difference.

@fairmonkey4786

3 ай бұрын

Play elder scrolls online. It will probably be better than elder scrolls 6 anyways. Also skywind and skyblivion are coming

@mightylink65

3 ай бұрын

@@fairmonkey4786I have played it, it's not the same... that's like telling a NFS fan to go play NFS World, but they can't anymore, because it's shut down...

@waterloo32594

3 ай бұрын

Why are you looking forward to ES6? Bethesda has dumbed down and casualfied their games with each release. I’ve played Morrowind, Oblivion, FO3, Skyrim, FO4, and Starfield. Each one has less RPG mechanics than the last, each has worse dialogue and quests and overall writing than the last. Each one (except Starfield) has retconned lore, in many cases removing the parts that make the worlds they take place in unique. I have no hope for ES6 or FO5, and honestly neither should you. Everything that comes out of Todd’s mouth is a lie.

@fairmonkey4786

3 ай бұрын

@@mightylink65 i think its funny when skyrim fans criticize elder scrolls online for having a bad story, bad characters, bad quests, and bad combat when skyrim in reality has all of those same problems

Todd's current stats: Charisma and Luck: 10 Everyone else: Intelligence: 20

We want the chance to find a different scene on our way to the same facility we have been to dozens of times. Maybe a dead space traveler with a note, maybe a lost explorer. There are the injurred ones you have to take back very far to their ship, and the girl with blind alien. That's basically it. What makes a RPG is while on your way to quests, or exploring, find scenes of story telling or random event that requires you to do something. Randomly generated locations of the same 20 types, is not an RPG. It's walking on a boring planet with nothing interesting.

Starfield did essentially what ME Andromeda did. Concentrated too much around "open world", tons of new worlds! Visuals! Instead of focusing on what was great about the originial trilogy - story, races, lore, worldbuilding. Starfield fell on its face for much the same reason - it was a space opera for space opera's sake. They nailed the genre, bot forgot to put in any music.

@masterpainter78

3 ай бұрын

Actually Bethesda followed through on what MA backed away from. Also Andromeda is easily better game than Starfield by far, but somehow some way a dingus is going to tell me I'm wrong and actually be serious about this? Idk how that is even possible but on steam for sure.

What broke Starfield for me was the load screens and poorly written companions .

@mikeoxmells69

3 ай бұрын

Ya it was the poorly written everything and lack of meaningful lore, o and of course the loading screens

@hagron5702

3 ай бұрын

Ah yes, another loading screens. This will give me more time to think about how boring the followers are.

I'm not sure that Starfield counts as "polarizing". I've heard of nobody on the "love" end of the spectrum. Some people hated it, some people were merely unbothered enough to play through it.

People need to realize that Todd Howard had nothing to do with making the Elder Scroll's and Bethesda great... He just inherited an IP at the top of its game, then he proceeded to simplify and dumb down the IP... While Improving graphic's and the cinematic experience. The Later made up for the drop in complexity in Skyrim and Oblivion.... However both of those games would have been so much better had they still had the complexity of Daggerfall... Now we have gotten to the point where Graphical improvements don't matter as much, cinematic improvements don't matter as much because the tech didn't shift any where near as much since Skyrim then between Daggerfall and Skyrim.... Now the office (Intern) who somehow inherited the legacy of the Elder Scrolls Franchise is showing he has no Creative Ability, all he could do was streamline and enhance the graphical and cinematic experience of Daggerfall.... Anyway CANT WAIT for Wayward Realm's to see what the REAL Father of the Elder Scrolls can do with new technology.... I think its going to be everything we have wanted Bethesda to release!!!

Elder scrolls 6 and fallout 3 remaster are going to be trash

Yea but it's Bethesda so people will give them a pass regardless of how bad their games really are.

Sounds exactly like blizzard when they told their community the world of Warcraft community, that the thought they knew what they want, but they really don't know what they want. So they're going to continue to do what they think is right.

Ships are a static model hanging from a string from your bedroom ceiling , nice to look at , just don't try to fly them …

@EggEnjoyer

3 ай бұрын

Disagree. The ships feel great to fly. The problem is the amount of space you’re given to fly them

Todd Howard isn't trying anymore the way he said "if I'm doing a space Game I want to be able to land on every planet" sounds like any CEO ever putting unrealistic requirements on his dev teams and not really something that their engine can handle. They need to stop using that god awful engine they use and there needs to be a huge shift in focus at Bethesda. Also tbh none of Bethesda's own in house titles have been anything than a little bit better than average in terms of overall game quality with Skyrim being the exception.

@ModuliOfRiemannSurfaces

3 ай бұрын

I actually was really disappointed with Skyrim having played Oblivion to death.

9:16 The issue is almost the opposite. I would think landing on empty planets could be cool if there was a reason made for doing so. No planets are empty though. It's the same copy-pasted shit on every one of them. And wherever you land, on whatever planet, even if you land on 1000 different locations, there will be a man made object within 500 meters from you. It's immersion breaking as fuck.

The worst case scenario is that they don't learn from feedback. We are living this scenario. You aren't thinking clearly if you have any hopes for their future games.

I disagree with the fact that the quality of the graphics or the technical aspects are "as much as a problem as people make it out to be" the issue is that the game is bland, repetitive, and the story uninteresting non-imaginative garbage (even for bethesda standards) sprinkled with the wo ke, and this is without getting into the loading screen extravaganza, if you were to give Starfield a graphical makeover raising it to the technical level of CyberPunk 2077 it would still be a bad, repetitive, uninteresting and mediocre game full of loading screens.

I think it's safe to say that I'm gay

@msg3134

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@liquidtruth7954

3 ай бұрын

What a unique metal gear reference lol

The people that liked starfield are the same people that didn’t even notice all the bad writing in the fallout tv show. So many youtubers i thought had intelligent takes over the years on so many issues that didn’t even mention the bad writing in the fallout show and thought it was just the best thing ever.

@LuciusVulpes

3 ай бұрын

The TV show is a decent show but it's a terrible Fallout product. Most of the people who think the TV show is the greatest thing ever only think that because they never played the games or didn't play them enough/played them years ago.

@Greenhead24

3 ай бұрын

@@LuciusVulpes its the writing that makes absolutely no sense.because i cant relay my opinion in the comments ,it would be like 10 pages. I suggest to watch “reaper” channel and watch his fallout review until this dude mauler is done with his review,it will show you exactly what i mean when i say bad writing. Its even worse than i thought

@furrypurplehaze6837

3 ай бұрын

Opinions are like...

@TheOneGreat

3 ай бұрын

You can like something while still being critical.n

@finsfan90

3 ай бұрын

Same people that loved season 8 of Game of Thrones. Its like.. HOW

Cyberpunk makes Starfield look like a remaster from the Xbox 360.

Bethesda keeps polishing their games. They polish out interesting gameplay, NPCs, and impactful dialogues. The only thing that will be left of their games in 10 years is loading screens.

StarFailed

What is this alternate reality where Starfield had some kind of catastrophic launch? As with FO4, I experienced literally 0 bugs, 0 crashes, and the game was absolutely on par with the "industry standard" at launch. People like to praise CDPR, but TW3 and CP2077 were borderline unplayable at launch and took over a month before they were at an acceptable level. I had more issues with Elden Ring than I had with Starfield, and Elden Ring gets nothing but praise as well. The reviews are a moot point, as their was already a massive anti-BGS and anti-Starfield campaign online well before the game actually released. People who haven't even played the game speak about it being "trash" and "unsalvageable", which is just laughable. The internet is a pretty shit place these days and hate content gets a ton of easy clicks, so user reviews should always be taken with a massive grain of salt. And finally, I'm not sure how you and so many people commenting here are completely missing the point Todd made. He's not saying people dislike Starfield because it's "not TES/Fallout". What he means by "it's different than TES/Fallout" is exactly what people are complaining about: The exploration is handled completely differently and so the thing everyone loves about those other games is not present in Starfield in the same way. Again, he's not saying that people would love the game if they made it this exact same way but made it a TES/Fallout title, he's saying those people would love it if the exploration was handled in the same way in Starfield as it was handled in TES/Fallout. If Starfield had those dense, closely-connected world-spaces where you walk 15 seconds and bump into something interesting and connected to the rest of that same world, people would love it. But as you called it "too spread out" as the content in Starfield is, that exploration experience does not exist and that's why people are complaining.

If it wasn't for Game Pass, they would not have had as many players at launch. They should release actual number of people that bought that game.

So, we will be able to drive on an empty planet or a planet with 6 of the same POI's? yaaaaaaaaay... thrilling.

The games issues aren’t just one or two. Not to mention the ESG riddled sanitized and woke experience sucks the soul and authenticity out of it. You can’t have a woke game that’s good. It just doesn’t work. The shitty writing didn’t help. Very forgettable experience.